The City

The urge to capture our experience is to participate in the people and the places that surround us. What drives this process is a mixture of curiosity, impulse, outrage, dialectic, witnessing and creativity. There is a tension between the implied objectivity of a camera and reality that its images have a rhetorical force that belies it's objectivity; a mechanical process that creates something that can be full of emotions, poetry, and meanings.
The City is a visual disquisition on our shared urban narratives, which delves into the connectedness of the real and the abstract. By exploring the tropes of the built environment, I am both a witness and a resistant participant. I am torn between revelling in the vibrant neighbourhoods that are being erased and the enormous energy and beauty of the deconstruction and the skeletons that arise from their dust to create something completely different.